Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-03-25
"Wiltul Waste Makes Woful Want"

en- equally safe, thirty years hence.
"Wiltul Waste Makes Woful Want
Hearing this expression used a day
or two since has led me to think of the
many ways in which things are wasted
in the kitchea:. The German house
keeper sets a good example II this re-
spect for US to follow. Nothing that
can be eaten is thrown away. Scraps
Of dry bread, cake or graham gems are
made up into delicious buildings. When
we come to think of it, there are so
many ways in which dry bread can be
made up into DAINTY dishes, that it is
strange a crust ever finds its way into
the slop pail. Dry bread finely grated
or pounded can BE kept in a jar in a
dry place, and is very nice to put into:
soup, or to roll fish, oysters or slices Of
fat meat in before frying. Bread hash
is relished in our family. for a change,
using bread crumbs instead of potatoes.
There are SO many ways of wasting:
thick potato parings, taking away the.
best part Of the potato; carelcssness in.
cutting meat, leaving it haGgled and
'scrappy," instead Of cutting smooth
slices, leaving nc waste.
A careful hsusekeeper discovered
that her girl had been slicing, or rath-
er haggling, a large ham, only taking
the choicest lean, leaving the smaller
pieces to be thrown away. The bone
was carefully trimmed, the scraps all
being taken to make a delicious ham
omelet. Is this stinginess? :.
The girl thought her mistress stingy,
but there is a vast difference between
stinginess and economy. Stinginess
may result from s~elfshness, while
economy is the outgrowth of a true
%benevolence that would give the best
and make the most Of all that is, in
! tended for our use. Economy spreads
the table with luxuries which extrava-
gance cannot afford.
10 the thrifty housekeeper there is
some satisfaction; when she can mako
up some good, nourishable, palatable
dish from material that would be con-
sidered worthless by some. F..
One lady of my acquaintance, who is
noted for her splendid buckwheat
cakes, took us behind the scenes and
divulged.t the secret that she always
saved the cold pancakes, soaked them
and stirred them into the batter when
mixing it ready to use. If there were
no cold cakes she used bread crumbs,
thinking it improved the batter. A fair
trial convinced us that it is an i'm
provement, and it is also economical.
Another lady tells me of. using up
the fat pork, which none of the family
relished very much, and which her
husband detested, by making 8 pork
cake, putting in plenty OF fruit and
baking thoroughly. 1t is a rich cake,
but no more unhea'thtul than food in
which lard is used.
1t may seem almost unnecessary to
preach economy here, where SO many
of us find it necessary to reduce expens-
es and exercise our ingenuity in max
Ing something out of nothing" for u
tables, and we realize that necessity is
the mother OF invention hers. in our
western homes, if neyer before;
yet perhaps if we would carefully re-
view our work each day, we could see
where tri1les have been wasted. Tri-
fling events make up the greater part
of our lives, and little. savings in houss-
.hnull MT $50 irnNrEl